How Healthy is Your Water?
41.619441, -70.954749 41.594661, -70.958013 41.58496272, -70.95280466 41.579445, -70.944997
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Buttonwood Brook
Two sampling stations: BWB4, BWB1
32
Inner Apponagansett Bay
Three sampling stations: AB1A, AB1, AB4
48
Middle Apponagansett Bay
One sampling station: AB3
54
Outer Apponagansett Bay
Four sampling stations: AB2, AB6, AB6A, AB7

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Working to Save Buzzards Bay

The Buzzards Bay Coalition is a membership-supported organization dedicated to improving the health of the Buzzards Bay ecosystem for all through education, conservation, research, and advocacy.

We work to protect clean water on the Bay and on the land: